re: #201 Political Atheist

He ran on a progressive platform. Hope & Change. Nobel peace prize. Holding our winners to their promises is hard to think of as a bad idea. Disappointment on the left is perfectly understandable, unless it’s taken to moonbat territory.

The Nobel Peace Prize? You mean the prize that he freely admits that he didn’t deserve. And yes, he did run on a progressive platform. That doesn’t change the fact that he’s not making the laws that he signs or doesn’t sign. Congress does. As I said, I have some faults with him, I think he could have been more aggressive on the public option for example. I don’t have a problem at all with holding people to their promises. I have a problem with impossible standards for elected officials where every appointee who may have a connection that a person doesn’t like means the official is a sell out or every hawkish military action means he’s a warmongrel. To use another example of this, I’ll use Secretary Kerry. He’s one of the most able minds the Dems had on foreign policy after Hillary retired and yet he wasn’t good enough for the people I’m talking about because they’re still not over the 2004 election. That’s the mindset I’m attacking here not people who are like most of us here and wish Obama could have been more aggressive on issue A or B.